01490cam a2200289 4500 147886046 TxAuBib 20051231120000.0 051231s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004029685 9780374292881 0374292884 TxAuBib Friedman, Thomas L. World is Flat, The [BOOK] : A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century / by Thomas L. Friedman. First. New York, New York : Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2005. 488 pgs.,table of con., index. Local accession # 51140 $27.50 AALS Coll. Deve. 2006. New York Times columnist and Pulitizer Prize winning author Thomas L. Friedman's new book explores the world as a much smaller marketplace. Globalization of products and services are changing the world as we know it (Outsizing to China & India, the world's two most populace countries). He discusses the good and bad points in the shrinking world of information and technology. Most notable are the ways in which our government and others adapt to the social, economic and political changes brought about by this phenomenon. 20051231. Diffusion of innovations. Information society. Globalization--Economic aspects. Globalization--Social aspects. TXDIM